It is a war, so of course the speech parts will be dryish. People want great dialogue and are getting annoyed by the "random" power-ups. The power-ups make sense, people always save their "ace" for when the times are really tough. Sakura with her diamond, Kiba with his Cerberus transformation, Shino with the parasite style bugs. I am happy with how the manga is right now, and usually always am. The fight scenes are sometimes breath taking and when something is revealed, it totally blows my mind. Kishi has me eating out of his hand. Readers just find themselves focusing on the negatives instead of the positives. They find one thing out of place and rate it a 1 star. Sure some people may rate it 1 star because its not in their tastes, but each chapter these past years always deliver for me. Props to Kishi, I dont even pay for subscriptions so i wouldn't batter him much if i hated it.